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ROLE OF PLANNING COMMISSION IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM (CIP) (10 MINUTE PRESENTATION)
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BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
The Commonwealth of Virginia envisions a potential role for local Planning Commissions in the preparation of jurisdictions' capital improvements programs. This work session agenda item provides an opportunity for the Town Council to discuss what role, if any, it may wish the Vienna Planning Commission to play in this process.
OVERVIEW:
The Town of Vienna has not, at least in recent years, included the Town's Planning Commission in its process of developing and recommending the capital improvements program (CIP). The current process is that staff develops a draft CIP, coordinated through the staff Budget Committee that the Director of Finance chairs and in which the Town Manager and other Directors participate. The Town Manager then recommends his CIP to the Town Council. Every other year, the Town Council approves the CIP, to be funded by issuing a bond; and in the non-bonding year, the Town Council approves the CIP for planning purposes only.
Commonwealth of Virginia
The Code of Virginia Section 15.2-2239 (Attachment 1) contemplates a role for local planning commissions. The Code provision is entitled "Local planning commissions to prepare and submit annually capital improvement programs to governing body or official charged with preparation of the budget." The code section starts with the following:
"A local planning commission may, and at the direction of the governing body shall, prepare and revise annually a capital improvement program based on the comprehensive plan of the locality for a period not to exceed the ensuing five years. The commission shall submit the program annually to the governing body, or to the chief administrative officer or other official charged with preparation of the budget for the locality, at such time as it or he shall direct."
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